Village Fund Corruption, Former Head Of Village In Rejang Lebong Bengkulu Was Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison And A Fine Of Rp. 50 Million

The Chief Justice of the Bengkulu Corruption District Court while reading the verdict against the defendant SA / ANTARA

BENGKULU - The Bengkulu District Court sentenced the former village head (Kades) Lubuk Tunjung Rejang Lebong Regency, Bengkulu, namely SA with a sentence of three years in prison and a fine of Rp. 50 million and paying compensation of Rp. 500 million, subsidiary of one year. "The defendant was proven to have committed corruption against village funds and the defendant was sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of Rp. 50 million and paid compensation of Rp. 506 million," said Head of the Bengkulu Corruption District Court, Fauzi Isra, while reading the verdict. the defendant was quoted from Antara, Wednesday, January 18. He mentioned that SA was proven legally violating Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 (1) letters a and letters b, paragraph (2), paragraph (3) of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 31 of 1999 concerning the eradication of criminal acts of corruption. As amended and supplemented by Law of the Republic of Indonesia number 20 of 2001 concerning amendments to Law of the Republic of Indonesia number 31 of 1999 concerning the eradication of criminal acts of corruption. The Public Prosecutor (JPU) of the Rejang Lebong District Attorney's Office, Arya Marsepa, said that the judge's verdict was the same as the previous prosecutor's demands and the defendant also did not appeal, so his party also accepted the judge's decision. "For replacement money, we are still conducting asset tracing to cover the state losses incurred and if found, it will be used as replacement money," he said. Previously, the Prosecutor's Office of Rejang Lebong demanded that SA be imprisoned for 3 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 50 million, subsidiary to 3 months in prison and must return the state's loss of Rp. 506 million. Then if the defendant is unable to pay the loss money, it will be replaced with imprisonment for one year and six months in prison. This is because the defendant was proven to have used the budget for his personal interests, namely to gamble online and cockfighting. It is known that the village funds that were corrupted by the defendant SA came from two physical activities such as the construction of a concrete rebate road which should have been built as long as 740 meters, but only 214 meters were done. Then the construction of drainage work, where after an investigation in the field is carried out it is considered "total lost" or completely lost because the work is not there and only repairs the drainage built in the PNPM program received by the village.